Issues reloading apache config

Happened on two of my machines tonight, either a new debian update or something has caused this.

Machine 1 (Linux Debian etch):
Running a suPHP setup. When a user deletes a site and doesnt clear his thrashbin the apache server refuses to reload with "bad group" error.
Apache fails to start.

Another machine complained about (Linux Debian Lenny):
Unable to open logs
(2)No such file or directory: apache2: could not open error log file /var/www/web91/log/error.log.
when someone manually moved a log/ folder to the wrong place.

Anyone know why apache has become overzealous of all settings and fail to start for such "minor" things?

Nope, did not change any of these checks.
What is so odd is that two different issues happened on two different machines starting at the same time in the morning. All related to conf issue caused by ispconfig .